Hamburg Sud joins Chile's CCNI on Lazaro Cardenas

Hamburg Sud and Chile's CCNI are planning to make calls in Mexico on their joint Far East/North and South America China Express Service/ASPA 1 from Manzanillo to Lazaro Cardenas, the container port designed to siphon cargo from the US west coast and rail it north to market.

Deploying 10 ships in the 3,100-TEU range, the weekly service will have a rotation of Yokohama, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Lazaro Cardenas, Buenaventura, Guayaquil, Iquique, Mejillones, Valparaiso, Lirquen, Lazaro Cardenas, and back to Yokohama.

The two shipping lines' second loop, North Asia Express/ASPA 2, will continue to call at Mexico's Port of Manzanillo The 2,532-TEU Cap Carmel, which sailed from Yokohama on July 10, and is expected at Lazaro Cardenas on August 5.